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Wizard 101 teaches wizards how to count up to 1 million players
Massively — ... in their cash shop. While 101 isn't very much, the development team has also added some new pets and items to the store that cost less than 101 crowns specifically for this purpose -- including the limited edition Storm Beetle pet. The 1 millionth player who signed up on... Wizard 101 teaches wizards how to count up to 1 million players originally appeared on Massively on Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.   Read | Permalink | Email this |  ...

Why aren't other MMORPGs doing better?
Tobold's MMORPG Blog — ... While there is a lot of garbage among Free2Play games, there are some real gems too. Wizard101, one of the nicer games you can download and play for free (at least for some time), recently announced having 1 million players. Although that is registered players again, not subscribers, or maximum concurrent users. Nevertheless it is easy to imagine how the better Free2Play games could make life difficult for the less good monthly-fee games. Age of Conan wasn't completely bad, but seeing that you can play a game with a similar quality level for free really makes you wonder if AoC ...

On the W101 Update
Kill Ten Rats — ... profit so as to get rid of gold stockpiles, but that is not the thing that concerns me.  The Bazaar window has a numerical counter that shows how many of a particular item are in stock.  This counter caps at 100, and I am not sure what that means.  Will price be more severely affected as things are sold when the Bazaar already has 100 of them in stock?  Or, is it merely a faux consumer gauge?  The counter ending at 100 items in stock seems awfully low in a game where there are over 1,000,000 registered users. ...